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About QZ Infomatics →Request a demoNobody was hired to type invoices into an accounting system.
Somebody is doing it anyway.
Expense management software handles employee claims end to end — receipt capture, policy rules, approvals, reimbursement and posting to accounts. Accounts payable automation does the same for supplier invoices, extracting the data, matching against orders and receipts, and routing only the exceptions to a person. Both remove the manual keying where finance time and accuracy are lost.
The problem
The friction is receipts photographed and lost, claim forms in Excel, policy applied inconsistently, approvals chased by message, and a month-end journal someone types by hand.
The friction is invoices arriving by email to four different inboxes, data keyed manually, no reliable check that the goods were received, duplicate payments, and early-settlement discounts missed.
Different origins, same underlying problem: a document arrives, and a person converts it into a system entry.
Extraction
Modern tools read the invoice and pull out supplier, invoice number, date, tax registration number, line items and totals, without a template configured per supplier. How that works.
Fields the system is sure about pass straight through; uncertain ones are flagged for a human check. That is what makes it usable rather than a second thing to proofread.
Accuracy rises as the system sees more of each supplier's format, so the exception rate falls over the first few months rather than staying static.
The realistic expectation is not zero manual work. It is that a finance clerk reviews exceptions instead of typing every line.
Matching
This is where accounts payable automation earns its cost.
For this to work, purchase orders have to be raised before goods arrive. If your business orders by phone and reconciles afterwards, fix that first — the matching has nothing to match against.
UAE VAT
The system reads the supplier's tax registration number and VAT amount, and checks that the document qualifies as a valid tax invoice.
A simplified receipt where a full tax invoice was required, a missing TRN, an invoice made out to an individual rather than the company. Each is a recurring FTA audit finding.
Because they are the documents nobody checks closely. Catching it at submission costs nothing; correcting it through a voluntary disclosure eighteen months later costs a great deal.
Policy
Staff photograph a receipt in the app, data is extracted automatically, policy rules apply immediately, and the claim routes for approval.
Enforcement stops being something a manager has to raise with a colleague, and becomes a rule everyone is measured by equally. That change is usually more valuable than the time saved.
Business case
This is one of the few software purchases where the case is arithmetic rather than argument.
Per active user per month for employee expenses, and per invoice processed for accounts payable automation. Volume-based AP pricing makes it easier to justify.
In most UAE mid-market businesses the payback period is measured in months, and the number is defensible enough to take to a board without a supporting narrative. Many businesses also discover during configuration that their written policy and their actual practice have diverged.
Expense FAQs
Expense management software handles employee claims and company spending end to end: capturing receipts, applying policy rules, routing approvals, reimbursing staff and posting entries to accounts. It replaces the familiar cycle of paper receipts, spreadsheet claim forms and manual journal entries at month-end.
Accounts payable automation covers the supplier invoice side: capturing invoices as they arrive, extracting the data, matching them against purchase orders and goods receipts, routing exceptions for approval and scheduling payment. The result is fewer duplicate payments, fewer missed settlement terms and a visible liability position.
Modern tools read the invoice using OCR and machine learning, pulling out supplier, invoice number, date, tax registration number, line items and totals without needing a template per supplier. Confidence scoring flags uncertain fields for human review, so accuracy improves as the system sees more of each supplier’s format.
Yes. The system captures the supplier’s tax registration number and VAT amount, checks that the document qualifies as a valid tax invoice, and flags claims where input VAT cannot be recovered. That distinction matters, because non-compliant supporting documents are a common finding in FTA audits.
Yes. Staff photograph a receipt in the app, data is extracted automatically, policy rules apply immediately and the claim routes for approval. Mileage, per-diem and corporate card transactions run through the same flow, with card feeds matched against receipts rather than reconciled by hand.
Policy rules run at submission: category limits, receipt thresholds, blocked categories, project or cost-centre coding and duplicate detection. Out-of-policy items are flagged rather than quietly approved, which shifts enforcement from an awkward manager conversation to a rule everyone is measured by equally.
Yes. Approved claims and processed supplier invoices post to the general ledger with the correct account, cost centre, project and tax codes, so nobody re-keys them. Payment runs export in your bank’s required format, and reconciliation back to the ledger happens automatically.
Pricing is usually per active user per month for employee expenses, and per invoice processed for accounts payable automation. The business case is easy to build: count invoices or claims per month, estimate minutes spent handling each, and compare that against subscription plus implementation.
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